The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 25, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9945 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS == REDS OCCUPY HALF OF BLASTED BERLIN Historic Political Cor {The Washington iMerry -Go-Round BIG SESSION OF NATIONS ASSEMBLED Blueprint of Machinery for Preventing World War Three to Be Made BULLETIN — SAN FRAN- CISCO, April 25—The “Big By DREW PEARSCN (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army." (Beginning today Drew Pearson will cover the high lights and backstage events of the United Naticns Conference from "San Francisco. He plans to remain at San Francisco during the first part of the session, then go back to Washington in case of impor- tant developments in the Tru- man administration, returning to San Francisco toward the end of the United Nations' sessions.) Four” chiefs gathered in a last- minute review of plans in hopes of making the United Nations Conference a world’s guaran- tee for peace. Stettinius, Eden, Molotov and Chinese Minister | Soong, met early this aftérmoon | in a hotel room. SAN FRANCISCO, April 25-With one chair for Poland dramatically empty, 46 victorious nations of World War II assembled for the first historic political conference to try to blue-print machinery for preventing World War III. This day, for which millions of SAN FRANCISCO—The" eyes of about 12,000,000 service men will be watchinng the conference that opens here today. So will their mothers. So will their wives, who wonder whether the children they bear in this war must be reared to fight another. So will the eyes of all the hungry, weary peoples of war-torn Europe, still hoping with a hope that flickers but never quite dies that finally we can con- struct a machinery for lasting peace. And it is no exaggeration to say that the seeds of the next war| will be nourished or rooted up at people over the the earth have San Francisco. The events happen- | waited and worked through years ing at this conference, in its back- of fighting, dawned bright, with Stage lobbies, and in the chanceries expressions of hope for lasting Of Europe right now, can spell the peace, yet darkened by one cloud, difference batween peace and war the Anglo - American dispute with Russia over Poland. i Barring some dramatic move by Premier Josef Stalin, the dispute on | Polish representation at the Con- ference is as dead-locked today as ever, splitting the ranks of the Allied powers in the moment they' are striving for unity. Close Coordination i Otherwise, there is evidence of close Big Power cooperation, which members of the American group interpret to mean that Russia, de- termined to help the Conference' succéed, is already making conces- | sions for that purpose. The Conference city is abustle with activity, with the American, delegation scheduled to hold a pre- | conferehce caucus, with Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius; Rus- sian members met with Foreign Commissar Molotov, who arrived yesterday afternoon, and the BrmshI delegates are in conference with | Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, | who arrived in San Francisco early today, for the Conference which opens at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. Highlights Highlights schedulgd for the half-hour program to be broad- cast around the worldsare a speech by President Harry 8. Truman from Washington, after Stettinius raps the session to order and de- livers the initial address, introduc- ing President Following the President’s speech, the program calls for addresses H§ Gov. Earl Warren of California, apd Mayor Roger D. Lapham, of n Fran- President Truman began work on his_address last njght after talking with . Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, whose hopes for the meeting in San Prancisco are high. First Break The first real break on amend- ments to the Dumbarton Oaks Plan came yesterday when Secretary of State Stettinius told a press con- ference Russia had joined the United States and Britain in ac- cepting the Chinese proposal‘w| write specific guarantees;of ju: legality intp the proposed world organization charter. (Continued ‘on Pagg Two) - 'WOUNDED; LOSES - PART, RIGHT ARM WASHINGTON, April 25 — The War Department said wounds suf- fered by Col. Robert S. Allen, co- author with Drew Pearson of the syndicated “Washington Merry-Go- Round” column, has necessitated amputation of the lower part of his right arm. Allen was taken prisoner by the Nazis on April 7, but was freed three days later. He entered tI Army in 1942, f 20 years later, WORLD WAR IIT SEEDS ALREADY PLANTED Betuddly, thé seeds. Have. already been planted but the roots are not ! deep and. they can be tqrn up. The séeds have been planted by groups in England, the United States and Russia who already have begun playing the type of power politics which can only end in eventual war between the two strongest nations emerging from the present conflict—the U. S. A. and the U. 8. S. R. Already certain groups inside the State Department and the British Foreign Office have begun jockeying to build up Germany after the war as a bulwark against Russia. Al- ready U. S. Admirals have focused the attention of the entire world on the island bases we are taklngf from Japan, so that Russia is be-| - (Continued on Page Four) HOUSEOKOF SENATEBAN LOOKED FOR May Lining Up Body Be- hind Restriction on Com- . ba tfor 18_;Year-0lds WASHINGTON, April 25.—House members swung rapidly into line to- day behind a move to accept the Senate’s restriction on the use of 18-year-old draftees. Chairman May, of the House Mil-! itary Affairs Committee, said his| present inclination is to ask the, House to concur to the Senate’ amendment to legislation extending the draft act beyond its present ex- piration date, May 15, May cited| the changed picture along the war fronts and said he probably would [seek House action tomorrow. | By a 50 to 25 vote, the Senate yes- | terday approvedthe amendment to| the House-passed legislation. The restriction would prohibit the as- signment of 18-year-olds to combatl duty until they have had at least| six months of military training. It would not apply to Navy assign- ments to combat ships, for train- ing. | | —re DIVORCE FILED { Rose Makinen has filed an action in divorce here with the Clerk of the U. S. District Court, against' John Makinen. The plaintiff seeks | custody of three minor children of | the couple, who are now in her - e SRR Sessions of the United Nations Conference are held in the War Memerial Veteran’s Building in San Francisco. Rt S i This is the lounge of the great structure, San Francisco’s replica of Ve Heavy-Thinkers al World Conferences ’ Also Enjoy Playing SUSPECT IN CHILD i | (Second of two articles on how an internationa conference wevks). By Flora Lewis WASHINGTON, April 25—Diplo- mats’ rooms at an jnternational ARRB" “A"lE canference may not be so smoke- W7 . filled or bottle-littered as politicians’ SEATTLE, April 25—Prosecutor ‘8t a convention, but the diplomats Shorett filed a first-degree murder [do try to get in a round of play like charge against Joe Bill, 29-year-old anyone else. Alaska Indian, accusing him of the, There were a couple at_ large sex slaying of five-year-old Irma elegant parties in Mexico City. At Irene McGough, at the salvdge:‘)"ev in the spacious, oper-air-mili- center headquarters Sunday. tary casino, a sumptuous cold sup- The Indian has been a hanger-|Per was laid out at long tables but on at the St. Vincent DePaul Sal- 8uests stood at their places and ate vage Depot, where the child's| There were no chairs—a Mexican bruised body was found hidden in custom, it seems. a storage bin of old mattresses. Even though U. S. Secretary of Joe Bill is described as weighing |State Stettinius has turned thumbs 155 pounds, is five feet, eight mches}do_wn on festivities at San Fran- tall, and medium dark. |cisco, there are bound to be a few. —_— - |Some_diplomats delight in formal |cHampagne receptions and feel of- {fended if this trapping is omitted. . . ||||e"0|’ Np'. Meni Others consider them a boresome 4 # ./ nécessity .but rex:cwd to sten!ifx‘u‘u‘sl‘ May Purchase Public i, =zir e == < Lands and Homesi an sa es‘ es!consist of dinner at a restaurant {hdndy to conference headquarters WASHINGTON, April 25 — The | 4q hotels or a quick lunch after Senate has passed and sent to the!me morning meetings—but often House a bill to permit Interior De-|more i accomplished there than in l i i s The unofficial parties usually care. There is no property at issue, he' The complaint charges incom-|purchase public lands and home-! patibility, cruelty and non-support. partment employees in Alaska "’;thp regular sessions. sites. )’ (Continued on Page Stz) n THIRD ARMY ONDANUBE, ~ MOVING ON | Maneuver-Armies Roll- ing to Alps’ Foothills BULLETIN—PARIS, April 25 ~—American 'Third Army tanks tonight clattered to within 18 miles of the Apstrian border, carrying them within 79 miles of Berchtesgaden and Sealing off Czechoslovakia in a great new trap. | PARIS, April 25—The American Third Army reached the Danube and moved to within 82 miles of Berchtesgaden, while two other armies assaulting Hitler's final Alpine redoubt, crashed forward in |a great manejver to encircle Munich, the greatest of South |German cities. 5 ! The British Aymy in the north {stormed Bremen, while armies in | Encirclement of Munich Is| i the center are awaiting a junction with the Russians. “The American Seventh and French First Armies are exploiting their Danube bridgeheads in drives {on the Swiss and Austrian borders, lwith the ¢ encirclement of Munich aping up steadily,” Associated ! ‘Correspondent, . A. K. . Gald- | berg”"féported from Gen. Devers' 'Sixth Army Group Headquarters. | 'The vaguely defined redoubt in | the south has perhaps been invaded |already by Devers’ froops, joutflanked Lake Constaiice on its | western limits. Oberbalzheim vaptured The Tenth Armored Division cap- |tured Oberbalzheim, 67 miles north- {west of Munich and 97 miles from |the Brenner Pass into Italy, while 'other Seventh Army troops are tbut 46 miles from Munich. | North of Munich, all three armies jare rolling with unchecked power {through the foothills of the " Alps, ‘}through terrain 2,000 or more feet high. Gen. Patton’s Third Army Ireached Regen, 32 miles from Aus- Itria and 123 miles from the Rus- isian lines in the St. Polten area |west of Vienna. Both armies are in ithe Danube Valley, which is good \tank country. ; A junction of these forces would encircle all the unconquered Bo- hemian and Moravian portions of Czechoslovakia, which Bismarck COOTE MAY COME | BACK T0 ALASKA 55 it 10 FINISH WORK "™ House Appropriation rsailles. Siege On Hamburg In the north, the British stormed s‘Bremen, tightened their siege on {Hamburg and bombed troop trains {pulling into Denmark. | The American-Russian junction Committee Passes on v s s S Bt iy e WASHINGTON, April 25—Robert already occurred, as many corre- K. Coote, of the General Land spondents at Supreme Headquarters Office, has done such a good job believe. |of locating agricultural opportuni-, Yanks Capture Nazi Generals ties in Alaska, the House Appro-| American Armies captured at priations.. Committee thinks he least 12 German Generals yester- should spend another summer there, /day, and a Supreme Headquarters and turned down a request from|statement said: “The German the Interior Department for $1,-/Army has ceased to exist as an 072,000 for a more formal and more ‘mgegmv.ed fighting force.” |extensive investigation of Alaskan; Gen. Omar Bradley’s Twelfth resources. |Army Group Headquarters said that In their report the committee|in two significant instances, Ger- |expressed the opinion, the work man officers recently told their !done by Coote and his two assist- [troops, “from now on it is every ants, “accomplished more toward man for himself.” location of lands feasible for agri-| cultural purposes than would be| ipossible under the original or pend- | ing expensive program, and it is hoped the department will find it possible to permit Mr. Coote to| repeat his work of the past| summer.” | The Appripriations Committee al- | lowed the Indian Bureau $844,000 for medical relief in Alaska, an in-| crease of $22,000. The committee commented that the increase would | provide additional personnel at| points of greatest urgency, in- creased hospitalization for natives | at private institutions, and the purchase of equipment. Bradley's troops, many Germans came voluntarily to surrender, 1,500 of them in one place alone. e Alaska Judges fo Get Refirement Privileges Now 10 years, WASHINGTON, April 25 — The Senate has passed and sent to .the House a bill extending retirement An increase of $57,000 for a total |privileges to Federal District of $593,000 was allowed the Alaska [Judges in all Alaska, Puerto-Rico, | Pisheries, while $138,170 was al- Virgin Islands and the Canal Zone, {lowed for the Game Law enforce- by which a judge may retire on a ment, a decrease of $40,000 xxom]certaln portion of his regular pay, |the 1945 appropriations. iat the age of 70 if he has served which | In the narrow corridor east of | Leipzig, between the Russians and BOMBS DROPPING NEAR FORTRESS BERCHTESGADEN Hitler's Private Rail Line Hit-Skoda Plant Is Attacked LONDON, Apri: Zs—more than 1,050 British-based American bomb- ers bombed one of Hitler's private rail lines, only 10 miles from Berch- tesgaden, and also attacked the mammoth Skoda works at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. In addition, the three other rail targets in |mile radius of Hitler's {headquarters. | The attack on the Skoda plant |came two hours after slave laborers were warned by an Allied broadcast |over the Luxembourg radio to flee |to safety in the country. Liberators attacked railway tar- gets at Hallein, 10 miles northeast lof Berchtesgaden; Salzburg, 15 miles north; Trainstein, 20 miles |northwest, and Bad Reichenhall, 15 |miles northwest of Berchtesgaden. Stockholm’s Tidningen, quoting what it said is an authoritative source, said the -German Govern- ment is now located at Salzburg. ATTEMPT T0 GET " HITLER AT HOME CHALET IS MADE {RAF Lancasters Make Raid on Heavily Guarded Mountain Refuge ! LCNDON, Apri¢ 25.—Royal Air | Force Lancasters today bombed Hit- ller's chalet at Berchtesgaden as a | possible attempt on his life. Both the Chalet and heavily, guarded installations and grounds in; |{the mountain retreat were bomb- {ed. | The barracks of the Storm Troop~| ers of Hitler's Alpine refuge atop Kehlstein Mountain, five miles from |the chalet were among the targets. | Attacks were made between 9 and 10 o'clock by two separate forces' of heavy Lancasters and 12,000 pound earthquake bombs and an assorted types of explosives were dropped. | Both U. 8. Alr Force and RAF. | Fighters escorted the Lancasters. | | The first announcement by the Air |Ministry said two bombers were, | missing. No official suggestion is made why the attack was carried out, but pre- sumably it was to gatch Hitler at! | his fortress home. German broadcasts insist, Hitler is staying in Berlin as a mnr!yr to a {lost cause, but such reports are dis- | |counted in Allied Headquarters. . STOCK QUOTATIONS | | NEW YORK, April 25 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today is 7, American Can 98, Anaconda 34%, Bethlehem Steel| |78%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, Interna- tional Harvester 86, Kennecott 39%, ( New York Central 26%, Northern Pacific 26, U. 8. Steel 67%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as Ifollow:: Industrials, 163.91; rails,| 56.56; utilities, 30.15. —— e — PERRY STOPPING OVER bombers a 25- fortress | | | hit | | German 'tron, knocking back German tanks ference Starts Today Where United Nations Mee! CAPITALIS NOW NEARLY ENCIRCLED wDefenders,_l;opping Up t from Subways, Beat- en Down by Reds BULLETIN—LONDON, April 25—Stalin announced tonight complete encirclement of Berlin, and the Hamburg radio alse admitted the Russians have reached the heart of the city. Announcement of the en- circlement came in an Order of the Day directed to Mar- shals Zhukev and Konev, and said the troops of the First White Russian and First Ukrainian Armies have linked up northwest of Potsdam. Stalin also said the junctare has cut all roads leading out of the capital. LONDON, April 25—Soviet troops have reached the Elbe River on & 20-mile front northwest of Dresden and all but completed encirclement of Berlin, slicing the last rail line west, the German command says. Moscow announced Monday the Russians had reached the Elbe northwest of Dresden. it At last reports, the : stood on the Mulde River, east Dresden, 20 miles from the Elbe. The German communique satd the Russians reached the Elbe be- tween Riesa, 25 miles northwest of Dresden, and Torgau, another point, 22 miles farther northwest. Beat Down Barricades Half of Berlin is today held by Soviet troops, who are beating down barricades of stone and o and fighting Nazis who have popped out of subways behind the Russian lines. Berlin is described as a wreckage of stone jungles, scene of a roar- ing, bitter battle. The First White Russian Army ‘has cut nine miles southward west of Berlin to Ketzin, 14 miles due west of the Reich’'s Capital City, all but encircling Berlin. Isolation Is Near The German communique said complete lation of the city is near. 4 German defenders, both old and young, are fighting stubbornly in Berlin, once one of the worlds greatest citié, which is being re- duced to a heap of blasted masonry and ashes. The First White Russian Army, driving from the north, and the First Ukrainfan Army, advancing from the south, joiped forces yes- terday in sefitheastern Berlin, cut- ting off large forces of Germans to the soul # Propaganda Minjster Goebbels, in a statemient brostcast over the Hamburg the Berlin defenders "that” h is near and appealed to the garrison to hold out as “important forces to relieve the defepders of Berlin are being brought up,” he said, and added: “No white flags will be shown in the eapital, which is fighting for its life.” - —— BATTLES Richard R, Perry, of Wrangell, is | :uopplng over in Juneau belorc; |going to Sitka, where he will take | \his Army physical, He is a guest| |at the Gastineau Hbdtel. | e JUCHA HERE MRS. | | Mrs. Frances Jucha, of Anchomge,l |1s a guest at the Gastineau Howl,l ———— e | JEFFERSON HERE | Glen Jetferson, affiliated with the Weather Bureau Office in An- | chorage, has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. ‘ GODDARD HERE | E. M. Goddard, of Sitka, has lr-‘ rived in Juneau to attend the CABI meeting today, of which he is a member He is a guest at t.hel Baranof. RAGE IN. SUBWAYS Nazis Usiné?erlin Under- ground System fo At- fack Russians in Rear MOSCOW, April 25—A fantastic battle surged through the subways under Berlin’s rubble-strewn streets today as Russian forces sought to crush fanatical Nazi troops using (Continued on Page Eight)